How you write about history and cultural encounters matters.

Writing workshops in Vienna Ba re e ne re had the privilege of hosting two writing workshops in Vienna in April 2019. Our Co-director, Lineo Segoete was in Vienna, Austria as a Cultural Educator in Residence hosted by Kultur Kontakt. While there, Lineo visited several cultural and educational institutions including museums and schools to learn … Continue reading How you write about history and cultural encounters matters.

The ignorant schoolmasters

Our co-director Lineo Segoete collaborated with Educator and Researcher, Nora Landkammer to write a reflective paper interrogating the subtleties of coloniality and power as expressed through the work of two educators born 100 years apart. Lineo then gave a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts during the seminar: "Art and Education Positions and Analyses" led … Continue reading The ignorant schoolmasters

“Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy” Learning Unit – now online!

As part of Ba re e ne re's work with the Another Roadmap for Arts Education network we produced a collection of educational curriculum customized for classrooms in Lesotho. Another Roadmap refers to this curriculum as a Learning Unit. Our learning unit titled "Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy" is finally online along with the units … Continue reading “Decolonising Literacy with Critical Pedagogy” Learning Unit – now online!

Ba re presents at Casco, HKU and The Piet Zwart Institute in Holland

Elephants in the Room, presented by Casco Art Institute in the Netherlands in November 2018, was the first in a new yearly assembly aimed at becoming a meeting place for art organizations to question habitual institutional patterns and imagine ways of “commoning” together. This year’s assembly was designed to investigate how, in relation to ideas of the commons, … Continue reading Ba re presents at Casco, HKU and The Piet Zwart Institute in Holland

Ba re presents @ Symposium in Zurich: INTERTWINING HI/STORIES OF ARTS EDUCATION – June 2018

Ba re e ne re was represented at the symposium by Lineo Segoete and Liepollo Moleleki. Held in Zurich, the symposium invited students, art educators, researchers and cultural producers to reflect on the histories of education in and through art. The symposium emphasized the fact that historiography in arts education means referring to a plurality … Continue reading Ba re presents @ Symposium in Zurich: INTERTWINING HI/STORIES OF ARTS EDUCATION – June 2018

Crossroads: International perspectives on culture, art and society

We were fortunate enough to travel to Basel, Switzerland to participate in the Crossroads Conference held in February 2018 by Pro Helvetia. We were invited there to join a panel and speak on the topic How to talk about what no one wants to talk about. A continuation of the anniversary festivities was also held in Johannesburg … Continue reading Crossroads: International perspectives on culture, art and society

3rd Africa Cluster Colloquium went down in Maseru – January 2018

The 3rd Colloquium gathering of the Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC) will took place in Maseru, Lesotho from 7-13 January 2018. The aim for this meeting was to present prototypes of learning units for arts education that ARAC working groups have been developing. In this context, learning units are considered resources for implementing educational activities in which local experience … Continue reading 3rd Africa Cluster Colloquium went down in Maseru – January 2018

Lineo tells a story about Sesotho’s written origins in Vienna

While in Vienna at the Another Roadmap School's Intertwining Hi/Stories Art Education Festival Ba re e ne re co-director Lineo Segoete was asked to share a story about our work with literary education in Lesotho. She chose to speak about contemporary creativity with Sesotho, as well as narrate the messy origins of missionaries transliterating Sesotho … Continue reading Lineo tells a story about Sesotho’s written origins in Vienna

Intertwining Hi/Stories Art Education Festival – Vienna – Oct. 2017

In October 2017, Ba re e ne re participated in the Another Roadmap Intertwining Hi/Stories Art Education Festival held in Vienna, Austria. Our representative, Lineo Segoete co-facilitated a session called "Critical Literacies" and led a storytelling session about the original transliteration of the Sesotho language by missionaries. The Intertwining Hi/Stories Art Education Festival brought overlapping … Continue reading Intertwining Hi/Stories Art Education Festival – Vienna – Oct. 2017